ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY.
There are hundreds of thousands who cannot afford to be run over; to whom a lingering illness would be misery; and whose death would scatter or starve their families. A serious or severe accident would probably deprive a clerk of his situation, and a small tradesman of his business, leaving them with no home but the hospital, and no hope but the grave. The statistics of general accidents are difficult to arrive at, but a small annual premium would be an ample safeguard against such a casualty. There is one point in which both this and the Railway Assurance Company are wanting, and yet it would be scarcely possible to amend the error. There is in neither of them any inquiry as to the health of the party assuring. Now it is obvious that the very life of a confirmed invalid would be shaken out of him where a strong and hale man would receive no injury.